Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

USA – Why President Biden should ban affective computing in federal law enforcement (Brookings)

Alex Engler writes: Affective computing is an interdisciplinary field that uses algorithms to analyze bodies, faces, and voices to infer human emotion and state...
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USA/Unemployment – US private jobs creation slows as hiring bottlenecks persist (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: More evidence surfaced on Wednesday that hiring bottlenecks are weighing on the labour market recovery in the United States. Payroll processor ADP said...
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Turkey/USA/Afghanistan – Turkey slams US statement on planned resettlement of Afghans (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The Turkish government has criticised a US plan to use third countries such as Turkey to resettle thousands of Afghans who risk...
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Afghanistan – Afghan families flee homes in south amid Taliban advance (Al Jazeera)

Farah Najjar writes: There has been intense fighting in Afghanistan in recent days, mainly in the south and the west, while a bomb-and-gun attack in...
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Ghana – Ghana’s #FixTheCountry protesters take to Accra’s streets (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Several thousand protesters marched in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday under the slogan “#FixTheCountry”, the latest rally against President Nana Akufo-Addo’s...
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African Union/Israel – The African Union, Israel and the futility of appeasement (Al Jazeera)

Marwan Bishara writes: For decades, African countries have supported the Palestinian liberation struggle against Israel, seeing in it parallels with their own anti-colonial movements. Likewise,...
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Ethiopia – Claims of bias against aid workers in Tigray ‘dangerous’, says UN (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The United Nations’ new humanitarian chief has denounced “dangerous” accusations by Ethiopian government officials that aid workers were biased in favour...
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Lebanon – Mired in crises, Lebanon marks one year since Beirut blast (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Hundreds of Lebanese have marched in Beirut to mark one year since a cataclysmic explosion at the port ravaged the capital, protesting...
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Lebanon/Europe – Here is why the EU should sanction Lebanon’s bankers (Al Jazeera)

Sami Halabi writes: One year has passed since the Beirut Port explosion of August 4, 2020. As summer temperatures are hitting record highs, so is the...
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France/Lebanon – Macron criticises ‘failing’ Lebanon politicians at fundraiser (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: French president renews call for formation of government able to implement reforms in crisis-hit Lebanon during donor conference on anniversary of...
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Global Pandemic – The Summer of Disaster (Project-Syndicate)

J. BRADFORD DELONG writes: The world is facing two disasters that are making the COVID-19 crisis doubly worse than it ought to be. The...
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Central Banks/Inequality – Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality? (Project-Syndicate)

KENNETH ROGOFF writes: Judging by the number of times phrases such as “equitable growth” and “the distributional footprint of monetary policy” appear in central...
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Global/Economics – Are Economists in Love with Tough Love? (Project-Syndicate)

RICARDO HAUSMANN writes:  Mark Twain purportedly said that “History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.” Typically, however, what rhymes is not the underlying historical facts but...
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Belarus – The Diplomatic Triumph of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and the Fate of the Belarusian Opposition (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe writes: On July 28, United States President Joseph Biden held a 15-minute face-to-face talk with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who many in the West...
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Russia/Pakistan/South Asia – Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline: Russia’s Key to South Asia? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin writes: Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov and Pakistan’s ambassador to Moscow, Shafqat Ali Khan, signed a revised agreement on May 28 that...
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Russia – Putin’s Response to Bridge Collapse Highlights Infrastructure and Political Problems (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Globe writes: The collapse of a single short river crossing on the Trans-Siberian Railroad 300 kilometers from Chita, in late July, and President...
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